This book recounts the struggles, the triumphs and the lessons learned while carving a home and a living from one of British Columbia's most remote areas. A veteran of the outdoors, Chris Czajkowski captures the beauty of the place with a lyrical intensity that touches and inspires.
Charming, humorous and utterly engaging, this is a book that will make readers laugh and cry. Written from the point of view and in the voice of the author's dog, Lonesome, its observations of life in the wilds reveal a dog with great character, charm -- and attitude. Named for her first home, remote Lonesome Lake in British Columbia's Tweedsmuir ...
More than a decade ago, Chris Czajkowski walked into the wilderness, intent on carving a life and a business from the unforgiving terrain in British Columbia's Coast Mountains, twenty miles from the nearest road. She succeeded and recorded that adventure in Diary of a Wilderness Dweller. Now, in Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller, Chris ...
Chris Czajkowski chose to build her life and small ecotourism business on the shore of a high-altitude lake near the southern tip of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. It is a formidable landscape of lake-dotted alpine plateaus abutting the glacier-swathed backbone of the central Coast Range. This book describes Czajkowski's experiences as she builds her ...
Czajkowski became well known to Canadians through her correspondence with Peter Gzowski on CBC's "Morningside", where she described her initial foray into the wilderness near Lonesome Lake. The letters were expanded into a best seller. From there she moved to virgin ground at Nuk Tessli, where she has lived for nearly 20 years. "Wildfire in the ...
In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. "A Mountain Year" is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse into the life of this independent spirit and the landscape that she calls home. ...
This is a bestselling account of how one woman headed into remote British Columbia, cleared a piece of land, and built her own home. Illuminated by the author's own drawings, Cabin at Singing River is an inspiring book, realistic about how beauty can only be apprehended with hard work. The dream of shedding urban responsibilities and returning to ...
This is a bestselling account of one woman's journey into remote British Columbia, where she cleared a piece of land and built her own home. Illuminated by the author's own drawings, Cabin at Singing River is an inspiring book, realistic about how beauty can only be appreciated with hard work. The dream of shedding urban responsibilities and ...
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